Wouldn’t you like to know who built your house, the names of all the owners throughout the years, their children, their occupation, when they planted that big tree in the backyard, why they put on that addition, what colors they painted the house, and why in God’s name did they ever paint that chestnut woodwork […]
Contemporary Victorian Design
Can We Really Trust Builders and Architects? This contemporary Victorian design looks good to the untrained eye but . . . A contemporary Victorian design with numerous design errors. A Victorian Revival in need of help. Contemporary Victorian design is quite popular today and admired by the untrained eye. But to the trained eye, as I [...]
Evaluating the Energy Performance of Windows
Saving Windows, Saving Money – a newly published report on energy performance of windows. The report analyzes do-it-yourself solutions such as window films and weather stripping to replacing older windows with new ones. [Read more]
How Psychology Can Improve Architecture
Why do some buildings exhilarate us and make us feel like we belong when looking at them while others can feel disharmonious? Our subconscious mind determines how we perceive architecture. What we see with our eyes interacts with our brains, consciously and unconsciously. Our brains process this data – this interplay dictates how our senses […]
Danger in Your Home
The following article is a guest post by Brian Turner. Brian has been working with the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance as an environmental health and toxic substance safety advocate. Asbestos has been known for many years to be linked to lung cancer, asbestosis (an inflammatory lung disease), and mesothelioma (cancer of the thin membranes surrounding the [...]